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What the developers have to say:

“Warning: Early access phase is meant to give you a chance to experience the game as it progresses through its development cycle, and the game is still at an early stage. As such, it does contain missing features and nasty bugs. Developing the game together with the players gives us a lot more creative freedom, and you get to communicate with the development team to make sure we’re making the all-out racing game that you want.”

Buy Next Car Game: Wreckfest - Digital Deluxe Edition Upgrade

October 24, 2014

During the past few weeks ago we have released a handful of hotfixes, addressing issues and squashing bugs like nobody’s business. As a result, the 18-car multiplayer races, packed with tight and dirty situations and crashing cars, run smoother than ever! You can host your own events with much better stability, and use the reworked lobby chat to lay down the rules to your opponents.

If you love the madness and mayhem our game is all about, we wouldn’t mind at all should you recommend Wreckfest to your friends, for as we all know, nothing beats ramming your buddies off the road and throwing your head back in villainous laughter.

Digital Deluxe Edition

Buy the Digital Deluxe Edition and get a lot of great, exclusive content!

Backer Race CarA special in-game race car that's not going to be available later!

WallpapersA set of cool wallpapers to trick out your desktop in style.

SoundtrackA rocking soundtrack of the game.

Please note that the extra content will be available at a later date.

Next Car Game Sneak Peek 2.0

Upon purchasing, Next Car Game Sneak Peek 2.0 will be added to your library!

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About This Game

Wreckfest is a new demolition derby themed racing game with soft-body damage modeling, sophisticated driving dynamics and in-depth vehicle upgrading, featuring both demolition derbies and more traditional track races. It’s all about fun, breakneck racing and over-the-top crashes.

Expect epic crashes and tight, neck-to-neck fights over the finish line on run-down racing tracks. Expect proper demolition derbies. Expect brand new ways for metal to bend and the signature once-in-the-lifetime moments that can be achieved only with true-to-life physics simulation.

It’s a motorsport, but not just any motorsport. It’s a motorsport with attitude.

Unique Racing Experience

First and foremost, we’re building a FUN racing game with PERSONALITY. It’s all about the stuff that really matters: varied tracks, cool cars, and the defining once-in-the-lifetime moments that can be achieved only with true-to-life physics simulation. If you’re familiar with our previous games, you already know what we’re aiming at: exhilarating racing action with sophisticated physics and damage modeling, only this time we’re upping the ante on almost every front. This is the game we envisioned way back in the early 2000s, only re-imagined for today’s technology and gaming standards.

Awesome Cars

The cars are old, cheap, banged up, patched together, rusty… just awesome! In short, our cars ooze with STYLE. You won’t find anything like them in other racing games. We’ve got variety, as well: everyone loves the old American heavy-hitters from the muscle car era, but we’re not neglecting the fun little European and Asian cars from the long-gone decades either. The best part is that you’ll be taking them apart and building them back up again in your garage; the career is as much about your garage and your project cars as it is about racing.

Exciting Engine

Our in-house ROMU engine is a hell-bent beast that's precision-engineered for high-speed, breakneck racing. We have also already implemented fully deformable soft body car damage, meaning that the cars will react to damage in a very tangible, convincing way. While we're focused on action, motorsport authenticity is not forgotten, either. To that end our engine is simulating vehicle dynamics in a very sophisticated fashion. Rolling resistances, casters and slip angles are definitely not ancient Greek to us, and you as the player will be the one benefiting from our expertise.

EARLY ACCESS FEATURES

The current Early Access release contains four playable cars and a number of tracks, showcasing both white-knuckle track racing and explosive demolition derby action with 24 cars that will give you taste of things to come. During the coming months we’re going to give the game a lot of polish as well as implement many new exciting features, and all Early Access supporters have a unique opportunity to get involved in the development of the title!

We’ve also giving a playable Technology Sneak Peek 2.0 to all our Early Access supporters. The sneak peek features a playground that we use internally to test various features various like car damage and environment destruction. Version 2.0 includes new destructive machinery, more dynamic stuff to blow up, spectacular stunts and an awesome physics cannon that we use to play with our physics engine. With the physics cannon you too will now have a chance to cause mayhem to heart’s content by launching missiles, throwing stuff around and destroying the environment as well as the cars!

Online multiplayer.

LAN multiplayer.

Five cars: American Muscle I & II, European Hatchback, American Sedan and European Coupe, with unique handling traits.

A number of different performance and handling upgrades, replicating selected real-world parts.

A number of race tracks including Tarmac, Sandpit, Figure 8 and Speedway, featuring both normal and reverse layouts.

Three different derby stadiums: a large stadium, small stadium and a mud pit.

Various race and derby game modes including Team Deathmatch with up to (!) 24 cars, all with dynamic damage.

UPCOMING FEATURES

Wreckfest is currently in early Pre-Alpha stage, and the Early Access version is going to serve as a basis on which we will continue building the game based on your feedback on what works and what doesn't. Throughout the Early Access phase we're going to gradually add more content and new features to the game, with some of the most important key features planned being:

Improved car damage and handling.

More cars, each with different stylings and performance.

More race tracks and derby stadiums with varying surfaces.

More dynamic content on the tracks to drive through and crash into.

Highly configurable multiplayer with a variety of modes.

Extensive player garage and car upgrading system.

In-game classifieds to buy and sell cars and parts.

Streamlined and polished user interface.

Improved graphics quality and performance.

Please note that all features mentioned here may be altered or removed during the development of the title if deemed necessary.

The latest update directly from their blog on their official site states they are currently working on a re-polished physics engine and once released they will begin to focus on pushing for more frequent updates. that was posted 2/10/2015 so it IS possible its not abandoned! took only a couple seconds to find this information. Dont only rely on steam comments and news feeds to get you by! As for the game its a really neat game, really shows a lot of promise and I cant wait for future updates to be able to really wreck some havoc. Physics are nice currently, but are lacking. car models are pretty, destruction physics are pretty good too but DAMN, you can really ruin a car. Somewhat odd that it still rolls in that condition. Good game, from a tech demo standpoint. Get it if you are curious to see what the future MIGHT hold for the game, otherwise, wait for a couple more updates. If you have the cash, do it!

This is without a shadow of a doubt the best early access game I have played, and by quite a long shot. Whilst content is a tiny bit thin on the ground, with the amount of cars and parts available at present, there is so much promise to this game already.

Graphics are really rather good, a solid physics engine (sans a couple of bugs and glitches every now and then) and great sound.

But what really sets it apart, is the gameplay, which is so much fun it is crazy. Multiplayer on this game is one of the best experiences you can have online at the moment. That is something quite major, what with the amount of sim racers, it is refreshing to have something which is good, slightly silly fun.

Extremely excited for the full release, this game is promising to be really quite special.

I had much hope for this game, it was as fun as I hoped but it is lacking development.There's a menu, a few cars and a few maps. You also need to portforward to create a game which is pretty standard if the game was made 20 years ago.

It is great fun, I had a good laugh most of the time playing it.I recommend people to buy it with hopes they finish it really soon.

For an early access game still in Alpha stage, this game has provided me with countless hours of F U N already! The insane wrecks and carnage I have had with others in multiplayer have provided me and others with some great laughs. I can only imagine that Wreckfest will continue to get better and better with more content and options placed into the game.

If competitive racing or smash-em-up derbies sound fun to you and you do not mind an early state game (and content), buy Wreckfest.

In it's current state, it is incomplete, yes. However, the dev team IS working on it. How do I know? Nextcargame.com. They have forums there that document their updates, written by the devs themselves. Currently, the big issue of the "lost update" is the physics, and it is taking quite some time for them to polish it, according to the forums.

On the actual game itself, I enjoy it a lot. The derbies take some practice and skill to get good at in order to survive, the current physics look amazing, and the driving itself feels pretty good.

I have many games and never write a review. I've played many many games for many years and hours spent. Wreckfest tho...nearly everyone that I have played with raves in game and says how much fun it is including me. I can't rate this highly enough! Amazing Early Release game.

If you like racing and mayhem and great physics (that are still being updated), or if you just like to take aggression out and smash things, or if you just got your student drivers license, or if you like games that let you be independent yet also involve teamwork (FPS, MOBA or MORPG style), or if you love NASCAR but hate that there isn't enough carnage, or if you're just normal and love games...this game is for you! (I think that's about 95% of the gaming world).

Some servers like to just race with minimal carnage...that's cool too!

Love this game and in my unscientific poll of users that I've played with (in the Early Access game remember which I bought on a whim) they all LAUGH HYSTERICALLY in this game. I mean this in all sincerity that people literally say over and over in chat "This is awesome" or "This is so much fun" or "I can't stop laughing!"

I wouldn't post this if it weren't true 100% my experience.

10 out of 10!!! (or 5 out of 5 if you can only count that high)

The community is still waiting for the next patch but I appreciate that BugBear wants to release the next patch completed and be proud of it with enough testing that they don't get embarassed by some minor oversight that gets blown out of proportion by the internets community. I'm a patient person but I hope we don't wait too long because...well I want to play!

i would really like them to update it. it is a good game however they have not updated it in quite some time. hopefully it won't stay in early access forever turn into all the other early access games like dayz, cube world ect. at this point i am not recommending.

This project isn't abandoned. Go to the Bugbear's Community Forum and you'll see that major progress has been already done. Latest build is very fun to play, especially with force feedback wheel. You really should buy this one, you won't regret it!

I feel too much time has been spent making the game shiny and attractive and not enough time has been spent on the basics like interaction and driving physics. I'll agree with many others that updates are non-existent at this point. While watching particles fly off of cars is neat I feel that Eve of destruction offered more solid game play. Get on it Bugbear!